Welcome to Buy/Sell/Hold, Marker’s weekly newsletter that’s 100% business intelligence and 0% investment advice. Each week, our writers Steve LeVine and Rob Walker make sense of the most important developments in business right now — and give them a Buy for clever moves or positive trends, a Sell for mistakes or missed opportunities, or a Hold if they’re noteworthy but too early to call.
🍗 Even Taco Bell wants a piece of Popeyes’ chicken sales🍗
The Buy/Sell/Hold Analysis
In summer 2019, Popeyes fired the first shot in the chicken sandwich war, going after chicken king Chick-fil-A and vowing to take no prisoners. After just two weeks, the first battle reports were…
Welcome to Buy/Sell/Hold, Marker’s weekly newsletter that’s 100% business intelligence and 0% investment advice. Each week, our writers Steve LeVine and Rob Walker make sense of the most important developments in business right now — and give them a Buy for clever moves or positive trends, a Sell for mistakes or missed opportunities, or a Hold if they’re noteworthy but too early to call.
😮💨 Why Elon Musk is a living, breathing subreddit 😮💨
The Buy/Sell/Hold Analysis
“Underestimating Elon is not a good idea,” Bill Gates said on Kara Swisher’s podcast the other day. But really, at this point, who is underestimating Elon Musk? The man is everywhere, influencing everything…
Welcome to Buy/Sell/Hold, Marker’s weekly newsletter that’s 100% business intelligence and 0% investment advice. Each week, our writers Steve LeVine and Rob Walker make sense of the most important developments in business right now — and give them a Buy for clever moves or positive trends, a Sell for mistakes or missed opportunities, or a Hold if they’re noteworthy but too early to call.
🔌 The frugal fast-charging fantasy 🔌
The Buy/Sell/Hold Analysis
Over the last few months, three big U.S. electric vehicle charging companies have announced multibillion-dollar reverse mergers to take themselves public. In the latest, Volta Industries said Monday that it will go public…
Welcome to Buy/Sell/Hold, Marker’s weekly newsletter that’s 100% business intelligence and 0% investment advice. Each week, our writers Steve LeVine and Rob Walker make sense of the most important developments in business right now — and give them a Buy for clever moves or positive trends, a Sell for mistakes or missed opportunities, or a Hold if they’re noteworthy but too early to call.
🌤️ The upside of our national stonkmare 🌤️
The Buy/Sell/Hold Analysis
“We are all investors now,” Robinhood, the investing app, declares in its Super Bowl ad that will run this weekend. It’s a gauzy, feel-good spot, making the fintech company’s usual pitch as a…
Welcome to Buy/Sell/Hold, Marker’s weekly newsletter that’s 100% business intelligence and 0% investment advice. Each week, our writers Steve LeVine and Rob Walker make sense of the most important developments in business right now — and give them a Buy for clever moves or positive trends, a Sell for mistakes or missed opportunities, or a Hold if they’re noteworthy but too early to call.
📈 The End of Robinhood Is Nigh 📉
The Buy/Sell/Hold Analysis
For a year or two Robinhood has been, well, a Robin Hood — a no-fee savior to little guy investors everywhere, who got on the platform, yakked it up with fellow little guys…
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We know businesses can check our emails and Slacks. Should they be able to check our happiness, too?
One of the biggest advantages of working from home is the illusion of privacy. Yes, your emails, Slacks, Google Docs, Zoom recordings, and — if you have a company phone — calls and texts are all more or less free game for a snoopy employer. And yes, every second you’re on a video call is a second you can’t freely eat a meatball sub in your bed. …
Welcome to Buy/Sell/Hold, Marker’s weekly newsletter that’s 100% business intelligence and 0% investment advice. Each week, our writers Steve LeVine and Rob Walker make sense of the most important developments in business right now — and give them a Buy for clever moves or positive trends, a Sell for mistakes or missed opportunities, or a Hold if they’re noteworthy but too early to call.
🚴 The Peloton Economy is a mirage 🚴
The Buy/Sell/Hold Analysis
It’s been widely — indeed, endlessly — noted that Peloton has been a rare “winner” of the pandemic. With gyms reeling, many have opted for the high-tech home bike system, which involves a…
Welcome to Buy/Sell/Hold, Marker’s weekly newsletter that’s 100% business intelligence and 0% investment advice. Each week, our writers Steve LeVine and Rob Walker make sense of the most important developments in business right now — and give them a Buy for clever moves or positive trends, a Sell for mistakes or missed opportunities, or a Hold if they’re noteworthy but too early to call.
⏱️ How long will the corporate courage last? ⏱️
The Buy/Sell/Hold Analysis
After one of the most whiplash years in the history of the hospitality industry, Airbnb announced a difficult decision on Wednesday: It would cancel all reservations made through the app in the Washington…
Welcome to Buy/Sell/Hold, Marker’s weekly newsletter that’s 100% business intelligence and 0% investment advice. Each week, our writers Steve LeVine and Rob Walker make sense of the most important developments in business right now — and give them a Buy for clever moves or positive trends, a Sell for mistakes or missed opportunities, or a Hold if they’re noteworthy but too early to call.
🛍️ Why shopping malls must die to survive 🛍️
The Buy/Sell/Hold Analysis
Epic Games, best known as the developer of megahit game Fortnite, recently revealed that its new global headquarters will be… a mall. Specifically, the company is buying a 980,000-square-foot mall in its hometown…
These games are my most faithful emotional touchpoints for a crisis that’s made it difficult to remember entire weeks of my life
Memories from March and April are mostly static: the view from the window of my Brooklyn apartment as I monitor the line at the grocery store across the street, graphs of NYC cases and deaths spiking, photos of increasingly elaborate and then increasingly simple meals prepared and shared on social media, texts from family members and friends informing me of positive tests and doctor recommendations and quarantine instructions, links to makeshift Zoom weddings and wakes.
Whole days and weeks have been reduced to still images, save for a few dynamic exceptions: sequences and cut scenes and tutorials from whatever game…
Jean-Luc Bouchard
Senior Editor for Marker, a new Medium publication about business. Formerly: Quartz, Business Insider, BuzzFeed. Bylines in Vox, VICE, The Paris Review.
